As part of his “a mash-up a day project, João Brasil has mashed up the whole of the xx album, which you can find here. A bizarre result of this is his version of “basic amante” with MC Fl, which can only be described as “Funk lounge“. First DJ Cremoso and now J. Brasil, the xx album seems to attracting the attention of the most unlikely of remixers.
I do like this tecnobrega version of Major Lazer’s “Pon de Floor”. If you go to Cremoso’s soundcloud page you can find a lot more of his tecnobrega mixes including quite a strange one of the delightful “Shelter” by the XX. Exactly who Cremoso is, is a mystery as he doesn’t want to reveal himself but it has been speculated that due to his more indie bent he is an example of the middle classes adapting the periferia tecnobrega sound, or it could be just a joke to annnoy purists (either tecnobrega or indie-rock!!). Vladimir Cunha, director of “Brega S/A”, has talked of attempts at a tecnobrega Cansei de Ser Sexy being formed, so who knows where this will lead?
